Monday, 14 January 2013

SAN ANTONIO, TX, December 18, 2012 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®)
today announced the six finalist organizations that will compete for
the 2013 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research and
the Management Sciences, a prize for excellence in advanced analytics,
that will take place in San Antonio, Texas next spring.

The 2013
Franz Edelman Award finalists, who were named by CPMS, the association’s
special interest group for operations research and analytics
practitioners, are:

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®)
is the leading professional association for professionals in advanced
analytics. INFORMS is an international scientific society with 10,000
members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying
scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and
operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and
academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law
enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and
telecommunications. INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs
of operations research analysts, experts in analytics, consultants,
scientists, students, educators, and managers, as well as their
institutions, by publishing a variety of journals that describe the
latest research in operations research. Further information about
INFORMS, analytics, and operations research is at www.informs.org.